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Old August 14th 09, 01:10 AM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm
Alan Browne
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Default Video card for photo work

Martin Riddle wrote:
I'm looking for a new video card thats good with working with images.
Dual monitor support etc...
I have a GT9400, which doesn't seem to be very good color wise. The
onboard Intel graphics seemed better.
Eventually I will get a spider and do color correction.

But what are you guys using?, out of curiosity. ATI, Nvidia, what mfg?


Whatever you get, I suggest that it be OpenCL compatible so that future
apps can use its processing power for various compute-intense processing
tasks not necessarily related to video. (I hope, for example, that such
is used by PS CS5 on the Mac, one sunny day so that some renderings can
be done much quicker).

I have NVidia on one machine and ATI Radeon on the Mac.

No matter what video card you have, if the display is cheap then so will
be the appearance of the image. (eg: Why put a cheap zoom lens in front
of a high end DSLR?).

Further, a digital interface (DVI) will also be more color accurate and
possible "crisper" in appearance on a really good display. (Vice analog).